by Woody Weingarten | Sep 29, 2017 | 'Rollercoaster…' posts
‘Veep’ multiple Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus reveals that she’s fighting breast cancerJulia Louis-DreyfusJulia Louis-Dreyfus, 56-year-old multiple Emmy-winning star of “Veep” and “Seinfeld,” has breast cancer.The actress...
by Woody Weingarten | Sep 22, 2017 | 'Rollercoaster…' posts
Hospital network offers cancer patients, especially those in advanced stage, four tipsSometimes good information comes from unexpected places.Like an old ad.Case in point: I just found a piece on a Time magazine website that was reprinted from Cancer Treatment...
by Woody Weingarten | Sep 13, 2017 | 'Rollercoaster…' posts
DNA ‘fingerprinting method’ might lower risk of lab errors on thousands, N.Y. Times saysLab mixups and mistaken diagnoses (both positive and negative) may be happening to thousands of patients each year.That’s what Gina Kolata indicated recently in...
by Woody Weingarten | Sep 8, 2017 | 'Rollercoaster…' posts
African scholarship student is working on potential cure for a subtype of cancer for blacks A Sierra Leonean student reportedly is developing an alternative breast cancer treatment for black women.Sandra MusujusuAccording to a recent story by Taryn Finley on...
by Woody Weingarten | Aug 31, 2017 | 'Rollercoaster…' posts
New FDA-approved cancer gene therapy to cost $475,000 for a single course, reports sayAre pharmaceutical companies gouging the public?Very possibly, as evidenced by a new gene therapy for childhood leukemia that will cost almost half a million dollars for a single...
